My wife and I are friends with another couple that we talked into Brikwars-ing with us. The day before yesterday, they called to tell us of a buy 2 get 1 free special at Toys R Us. They purchased the Millenium falcon, Hogwarts Castle and Helms Deep for about $100 per box. Not bad, especially since he's the head of PR at his company and can afford the bigger sets. I would have taken advantage of that sale, but we purchased a DSLR camera and have to wait until we get more funding for LEGOs. After talking excitedly like two freshmen at their first college party for a few minutes, I declared war on him and told him to begin preparing for battle. I'm not sure if he has his castles up, but he'll have some pretty tough units to beat. We decided to only go medieval/fantasy on this one, so no Star Wars or modern units.

This is my army:

86 out of 87 units are pictured here. I have a Demi-God that I'm going to bring. I had to take Quest for the Magic Chicken down for this one. Luckily I have pictures of the last turn so I'll be able to set it up again.

NINJA Four Archers and three master assassins. Two of the master assassins have bows while the blue one carries throwing knives. My wife got me the blue guy a couple years back because my favorite color is blue and we're both ninja in real life. Not kidding. Ask me what we did on our third date sometime. Two catapults are behind them.

ELVESTwo archers, two swordsmen.

GOBLINS AND ORCSBlood thirsty guys. Oh yeah....

MING CAVALRYTen horsemen armed with lances and katanas. Led by one of my undying heroes, although he'll be mortal for this battle. I know some of you are probably rolling your eyes right now and thinking, "Who does this Nagirrac think he is? The katana is a Japanese weapon. Why would the Chinese use them?" If you must be historically accurate, just remember that General Qi Ji Guang (pronounced: Chee Jee Gwang) of the Ming dynasty was commissioned to drive out the Japanese pirates from the Chinese coasts and adapted katana techniques for the two handed Chinese sword and the Miao Dao (looks like this: http://www.wle.com/products/W-GL-151X.html). Satisfied?

TROLL AND BALLISTA TROL SMASH N KIL!

MING INFANTRYTen spear men led by their undying commander who can possibly die during this battle. Make sense?

Now look at that determination!

SOLIRA, DOBBY, A HOUSE ELF THAT LOOKS LIKE YODA AND FLYING WOMBATSSolira leads this crack team of magic users against the forces of Dumbledore and Hogwarts (because my buddy owns that set). The wombats carry axes and fly on brooms.

DWARVESHammers and axes, blood and glory.

A WIZARD AND SOME EGYPTIAN WIZARDSGettin' really creative with the names here... They cast magical damage by using magic.

PA'TOPU, GUNGAN SWORDSMEN AND SPEAR MEN. Pa'Topu is armed with a trident and a vine. The Gungans love a good melee. Pip! Pip! Cheery-o!

SOME SWORDSMEN AND AXEMENYep. I kinda stopped caring about naming the people at this point. I also forgot to take a picture of my halberdiers. They're somewhere in the pictures, just look for them.

KELEX AND THE UNDEADThis time, the necromancer carries an augmented crystal to carry out the work of death among his foes.

LEVIESThese guys suck. I imagine they'll die pretty quickly.

TAIZU EMPEROR AND HEROESThe emperor has come to lead these men and has brought heroes from around the surrounding lands.

DRAGON RIDERSArmed with hammers of justice, these mounted/flying units should reduce my enemies to smithereens.... SMI-THER-EENS....

TREASURE CARTA crocodile drawn treasure cart may prove a sufficient enough bribe to get an early surrender. If it works, I'll execute my friend's heroes anyway. Ladders and climbing nets lay next to the cart.

We battled, but my friend and I teamed up against our wives and lost. I'll explain later. Another couple came over so now we're using single characters for random missions that my wife organized. Right now I have to convince a standard bearer to quit blasting the Final Countdown by Europe from Helm's Deep.

I have no idea what the hell is going to happen next.

SIR_WHO wrote:Making Semaj angry is like inviting several bears to come and chill in your house, while you have steaks tied to yourself.

TheGreatSethinski wrote:What did you and your wife do on your third date?

Well, we had dinner at some restaurant, most likely Fazoli's, but I can't remember. After dinner we were driving around and didn't really know what to do so I mentioned that I had some ninja uniforms in the trunk from my second job. She said that she wanted to see me in it and I said I'd do it if she would too. We ended up ninja-ing a park and scared some kids.

After that, we pulled some real jobs and then decided to get married to each other a few years later.

SIR_WHO wrote:Making Semaj angry is like inviting several bears to come and chill in your house, while you have steaks tied to yourself.

Fazoli's is her favorite restaurant because her dad took her there all the time when she was younger.

Samurai are not overrated, but they are bullies. Bullies that hijacked a country, used the emperor as a puppet and forced the population of Japan into slavery for centuries before the peasants could arm themselves with modern weapons and defeat them once and for all. Having said that, I did watch Hidden Fortress in my film analysis class today and I have to admit that Samurai movies are some of the best I've ever seen. Kurosawa is a genius.

My best weapon is the spear.

You don't get to know what my second job was.

SIR_WHO wrote:Making Semaj angry is like inviting several bears to come and chill in your house, while you have steaks tied to yourself.

I think what he meant by Levies is a sort of conscripted general cannon fodder style part time soldiers from the local peasantry. Local Lords would be responsible to their Overlords to Levy a percentage of the populace which would be trained and armed to a varying degree. These Levies could be called on at short notice to defend whatever realm they were part of. I suspect most would range from being pretty crap to almost useful.